Close Reading 8 from Lord Byron's Don Juan, Canto One

Contextualizing the Passage

Please write 800 words about this text: Question: Close Reading 8. Closely read and discuss ONE of the following passages from works on the course. Please see the following attachments (a-g). Your answer should begin by contextualising the passage within its larger work or discussing its general situation. You should then write several paragraphs in which you identify and discuss points of interest in the language of the passage (including such things as word choice, rhythm, imagery, tone of voice and other narrative and rhetorical techniques), aiming to give an overall account of how it works. Successful answers will draw inferences based on particular examples. In your concluding paragraph(s), you should also look beyond the passage to consider any issues and implications for the work as a whole. . e) From Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto one. (Notes to the poem are provided in the edition on Canvas) 178. … The charming Creatures lie with such a Grace, There’s nothing so becoming to the face. 179. They blush, and we believe them; at least I Have always done so; ’tis of no great use, In any case attempting a reply, For then their Eloquence grows quite profuse; And when at length they’re out of breath, they sigh, And cast their languid eyes down, and let loose A tear or two, and then we make it up; And then – and then – and then – sit down and sup 180. Alfonso closed his Speech, and begged her pardon, Which Julia half withheld, and then half granted, And laid conditions, he thought, very hard on, Denying several little things he wanted; He stood like Adam lingering near his Garden, With useless penitence perplexed and haunted, Beseeching She no further would refuse, When lo! he stumbled o’er a pair of Shoes. 181. A pair of shoes! – what then? not much, if they Are such as fit with Lady’s feet, but these (No one can tell how much I grieve to say) Were Masculine; to see them, and to seize, Was but a moment’s act. – Ah! Well-a-day! My teeth begin to chatter, my Veins freeze – Alfonso first examined well their fashion, And then flew out into another passion. For more information please check the file below please  because this is for the exam preparation.